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Quotes About Compassion

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
~ A. E. Houseman
Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
~ A. N. Wilson
Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.
~ A. S. Neill, Summerhill
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of lovingkindness, that brands us in the eyes of many of our opponents," wrote the second-century church father Tertullian to explain what made the faith attractive. "'See,' they say, 'how they love one another!'" (Barry 1985, 57).
~ A. Scott Moreau
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
~ A. Whitney Brown
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
~ A.A. Milne
Lots of people talk to animals...Not very many listen though...that's the problem.
~ A.A. Milne
And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh. Eeyore shook his head from side to side. "Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time." "Dear, dear," said Pooh, "I'm sorry about that. Let's have a look at you.
~ A.A. Milne
He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.
~ A.A. Milne
James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.
~ A.A. Milne
And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh. Eeyore shook his head from side to side. "Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time.
~ A.A. Milne
And then we'll go out, Piglet, and sing my song to Eeyore." "Which song, Pooh?" "The one we're going to sing to Eeyore," explained Pooh.
~ A.A. Milne
Piglet said that Tigger was very Bouncy, and that if they could think of a way of unbouncing him, it would be a Very Good Idea. "Just what I feel," said Rabbit. "What do you say, Pooh?" Pooh opened his eyes with a jerk and said, "Extremely." "Extremely what?" asked Rabbit. "What you were saying," said Pooh. "Undoubtably.
~ A.A. Milne
Piglet had got up early that morning to pick himself a bunch of violets; and when he had picked them and put them in a pot in the middle of his house, it suddenly came over him that nobody had ever picked Eeyore a bunch of violets, and the more he thought of this, the more he thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.
~ A.A. Milne
Do go and see, Owl. Because Pooh hasn't got very much brain, and he might do something silly, and I do love him so, Owl. Do you see, Owl?
~ A.A. Milne
Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly.
~ A.A. Milne
Sedikit Pengertian, sedikit Perhatian untuk Orang Lain, akan membuat perubahan besar.
~ A.A. Milne
Let us pray to remain in ignorance of the faults of those we like. Let us pray it as sincerely as we pray that they shall remain in ignorance of ours.
~ A.A. Milne
How do you spell love? You don't spell it, you feel it.
~ A.A. Milne
Rolf Harris is a hard man to hate, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try
~ A.A.Gill
Shake hands, we shall never be friends; give over: I only vex you the more I try. All's wrong that ever I've done and said, And nought to help it in this dull head: Shake hands, goodnight, goodbye. But if you come to a road where danger Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share, Be good to the lad that loves you true And the soul that was born to die for you, And whistle and I'll be there.
~ A.E. Housman
From far, from eve and morning And yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me Blew hither: here am I. Now--for a breath I tarry Nor yet disperse apart-- Take my hand quick and tell me, What have you in your heart. Speak now, and I will answer; How shall I help you, say; Ere to the wind's twelve quarters I take my endless way.
~ A.E. Housman
Love is never a problem, he said. Where there is love there is never a problem.
~ A.P.
Children do not need teaching as much as they need love and understanding.
~ A.S. Neill